Random Gaming Thoughts

[RCBH928]

I looked up on youtube emulating 16-bit and DOS Games using Android tablet since its much more convenient than opening a laptop or turn on the tv with a console attached.

I was dumbfounded to learn that you can emulate all the way to Wii...on a tablet...

I feel like we are living in a StarTrek episode. My brain can't handle the advancement in technology, it wasn't too long since cellphones came in monochrome screens.

[isiolia]

Wii specs are maybe in line with a Quicksilver G4 or something though, which is now an 18 year old machine. So, it's not really that crazy.

[RCBH928]

Tell it to my 2015 macbook that was about to melt when I ran Dragon Lair on it, albeit I was told this is because of bad programming that pushes the game to play at maximum frame rate. Either way, Wii on games on a device as thin as a magazine...still amazing for me. They should call mobile chips wonder chips.

[RCBH928]

So I never thought I would see this, but... XIII is having a remake! For an obscure game this is quite a head scratcher...
Now if there is only a way to play No One Lives Forever either the original or a remake.

[MrPopo]

Unfortunately it seems that no one knows who owns the NOLF rights. Nightdive tried to figure it out once but failed.

[marurun]

Unfortunately it seems that no one knows who owns the NOLF rights. Nightdive tried to figure it out once but failed.

I thought it wasn't so much that nobody knew because it was unknowable, but that potential rights-holders didn't care enough to bother dedicating staff or resources to verify their rights-holder status. So we don't know, but its due to apathy on the part of possible right-holders.

[PretentiousHipster]

There is a website that posted it to play on modern PCs as it is abandonware. I should get around to playing them I played part 2 so often as a teen.

[MrPopo]

Unfortunately it seems that no one knows who owns the NOLF rights. Nightdive tried to figure it out once but failed.

I thought it wasn't so much that nobody knew because it was unknowable, but that potential rights-holders didn't care enough to bother dedicating staff or resources to verify their rights-holder status. So we don't know, but its due to apathy on the part of possible right-holders.

Correct; it is theoretically knowable.

There is a website that posted it to play on modern PCs as it is abandonware. I should get around to playing them I played part 2 so often as a teen.

"Abandonware" is not actually a thing. It's more properly termed "software you don't have the rights to but are unlikely to have anyone come after you".

[PretentiousHipster]

I don't feel guilty pirating them at all. I mean, how can you support the developers for it? You don't support them when buying it on ebay, you support the random person on ebay that's selling it.

[prfsnl_gmr]

A technical violation of the law without ethical implications, like jaywalking on a rural road or cutting off the tag on your own mattress.